Kristian Kersting is a Full Professor at the Computer Science Department of the TU Darmstadt University, Germany, heading the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AIML) lab. After receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Freiburg in 2006, he was with the MIT, Fraunhofer IAIS, the University of Bonn, and the TU Dortmund University. His main research interests are statistical relational artificial intelligence (AI) and deep (probabilistic) programming, and deep probabilistic learning. Kristian has published over 180 peer-reviewed technical papers and co-authored a book on statistical relational AI. Kristian is a Fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI), a Fellow and Faculty of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS), and a key supporter of the Confederation of Laboratories for Artificial Intelligence in Europe (CLAIRE). Kristian received the Inaugural German AI Award (Deutscher KI-Preis) 2019, accompanied by a prize of 100.000 € , as well as several best paper, a Fraunhofer Attract research grant with a budget of 2.5 Million Euro, and the EurAI (formerly ECCAI) AI Dissertation Award 2006 for the best Ph.D. thesis in the field of Artificial Intelligence in Europe. He is (past) co-chair of the scientific program committees of UAI 2017, ECML PKDD 2013 and ECML PKDD 2020. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Frontiers in Machine Learning and AI and is (past) action editor of IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ), Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (DAMI), and Machine Learning Journal (MLJ).